If you ever feel like there aren’t enough quality games out on the AppStore, have a look at this week’s batch of downloads and remember how much awesomeness a mobile game can provide. iOS-friendly versions of Dragon Quest VI and Lego Batman: Beyond Gotham make this week's list as well as a very intriguing mystery game called Her Story. Fort Meow is a fun physics puzzler starring an army of cats and The Abduction of Bacon at Dawn is sure to keep you smiling. Read on to check out these and more great titles out this week.

Kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it. Not long ago, while a science book might have been full of wonder, it was still a dusty tome. Earth Primer puts the forces of nature rather more overtly at your fingertips as you build volcanoes, create sand dunes and rockfalls, raise rivers, and freeze everything solid.

Seeing ads tailored to your preferences in social networking apps in iOS is usually a normal thing these days, but that will probably change for iOS users after a new move from Apple to further protect its users' privacy. In other news, Apple gains over 20,000 indie music labels following its decision to pay artists during the Apple Music three-month trial, and Apple wins a top prize for its efforts in advertorial design.

When you’re a kid, summer takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not just the warm weather and late sunsets — it means no school for three months. But all that quality time can be rough on us parents. And when it’s raining or we’re cooped up together on a long car ride, we can’t count on sandcastles, fireflies, and tree houses to entertain them. But your iPhone or iPad can help.

Yousician aims to take you from complete novice to confident guitar player using your own guitar and your iOS device. You play along using your own guitar, and the Yousician app uses your iPhone or iPad’s built-in microphone to determine if you’re hitting the right notes at the right time.

Apple has heard your complaints about massive free-space requirements for new updates to iOS, and a new tool found in the latest iOS 9 beta aims to make the installation process much less painful. In addition, a software developer proves you can get a Macintosh OS from 1996 to run on an Apple Watch, and events from the weekend show why it's not a good idea to ask Siri about 9/11 or 9-1-1.

[UPDATED!] There are more great image-editing tools than ever before, and they aren’t limited to the desktop. We’ve curated a collection of the best Mac and iOS apps for tweaking, filtering, and painting your favorite photos no matter where you happen to be. Best of all, most of this software is extremely affordable (or even free), so go ahead and find an app that’s a good fit for your personal workflow.

To kick off the summer season of selfies and videos, we’ve got a new photo-sharing app from Facebook, an improved video editor, and a video-enhancing Adobe app. Plus, we found a way for friends to watch videos in sync over the Internet, an app for cleaning up bad audio, and even a trivia app that rewards you with shopping discounts! Dive in and star summer right!

Got an Apple, Mac or iOS tech question? We have the answer. This time we have reader question that sounds simple: how do you delete all your emails from a device running iOS 8? It's trickier than you might think, but we'll show you how it's done.

Summer means travel, shopping, and fun, all of which which are featured in the new and updated apps we'll be taking a look at this week. You won't want to leave home without the latest update to TripCase, which now supports Apple Watch along with a couple of other apps in our lineup. There's also a cool way to promote your online business, design a home, find lost stuff, join a community of online gamers, and share photos or videos privately or publicly.